The Person You Mean to Be: How Good People Fight Bias

Her experiences as a black woman had given her firsthand reasons to be a believer, but they did not equip her with the skills to be a builder. She, too, needed to have a growth mindset.

I embrace the label of bad feminist because I am human. I am messy. I’m not trying to be an example. I am not trying to be perfect. I am not trying to say I have all the answers. I am not trying to say I’m right. I am just trying—trying to support what I believe in, trying to do some good in this world, trying to make some noise with my writing whi

Psychological Safety in Teams

many people had good intentions going into this project. They were believers. Still, these intentions did not translate into their becoming builders, or prevent them from choosing a winner from the most overrepresented profile in Hollywood: a straight white male director with film-school training. Brittany winces as she remembers, “It felt like tak

Black and Hispanic job applicants are more likely to apply for jobs when black or Hispanic representatives are depicted in company recruitment materials.

something “crushing” became clear. Of those five thousand submissions, fewer than 15 percent were from women and fewer than 5 percent were from people of color. Brittany, who is African American, says with a sigh, “You didn’t have to go through a gatekeeper. We thought if the contest was open to everybody, then everybody would apply.” Everybody did

black undergraduates were more likely to apply for jobs portraying black company employees, especially if the employees were in supervisory positions.

‘This contest is not for me’ or ‘They’re not gonna get my perspective.’”

Growth Versus Fixed Mindset